My own Quotes · Page 4

As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James,…

— Ernest Hemingway

I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased…

— Haruki Murakami

I've always felt somewhat out of place with other kids my own age", said River. "I was constantly reminded by people's reaction…

— River Phoenix

I have my own personal wish list.

— Wentworth Miller

I write at a desk. I have a room of my own where I can have my computer. I write in there,…

— Eve Bunting

I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.

— Matthew Lewis

[Eugene Smith] was always writing these diatribes about truth, and how he wanted to tell the truth, the truth, the truth. It…

— Larry Clark

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was…

— Ernest Hemingway

I'm not saying this because I'm looking for a soft cushion wherever I'm heading, I just feel that I've got thousands and…

— Eazy-E

Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity.

— Buddy Rich

In my own case, I'm an artist, and I'm really interested in expanding the vocabulary of human action, and basically empowering people…

— Golan Levin

I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.

— Dwight Gooden

I can't live without my cup of tea. When I was a judge on 'America's Next Top Model,' they had to put…

— Twiggy

I find myself frequently placed where I dare give neither assent nor dissent to propositions that are submitted to me; for there…

— Ellen G. White

I am absolutely desperate to do an action movie. And not to blow my own trumpet or anything, but I actually think…

— Lily James

I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own. But the best problem…

— Andrew Wiles

As a child, I certainly wanted to have hair that I could grow long and flip around. I no longer want that.…

— Sophie Okonedo

My own take on the word "transgender" is that it's an umbrella term for anyone who breaks any rules, laws, guidelines or…

— Kate Bornstein

I don’t want to have to be like a Scarlett Johansson – who I have nothing against, but I don’t want to…

— Megan Fox

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

— John Donne

We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and…

— Shereen El Feki

Everyone thinks I'm a wimp and even my own band hates me. Oh, well. I guess I'll just flip 'em the bird!

— Black Francis

I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I think that's…

— Teri McKeever

I am the source of my own suffering, because of the habits of my mind.

— Dalai Lama

...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body…

— Francis of Assisi